"Continental chivalry! At last the realm of chivalry and the system of Pendragon expand to include the mighty tales of Charlemagne's paladins! Great subject, great game--I'm looking forward to this!" - Greg Stafford, the creator of Pendragon

Nocturnal Media is thrilled to announce a new partnership with Ragnarok Publications, a division of Outland Entertainment! Nocturnal Media will be working alongside the creative team at Outland Entertainment's Ragnarok line of published products to make high-quality games and stories.

Nocturnal Media is excited and proud to announce a new slew of deals to provide funding and distribution for small game and RPG publishing houses! Games from publishers Ben Woerner & Woerner’s WunderWerks, Ryan Schoon & Loremaster Games, Tobie Abad & TAGSessions, John Kennedy & Smug Pug Games, and Robert Denton will be published jointly with Nocturnal Media. These new arrangements allow these creators to focus on designing, writing and creating evocative, compelling, and vivid roleplaying and board games, in the manner which they already do.

Nocturnal Media is proud to announce the Kickstarter launch of Moods of the Mad King. Published under the Gallant Knight Games imprint and the first in a line of micro-games, Moods of the Mad King is designed by Alan Bahr, with gorgeous full color art by Dani Powers, and graphic design by Robert Denton! Moods of the Mad King is a game in the vein of Love Letter, Coup and other small "micro-games"!

Our Kickstarter project to fund five different rule system versions of Talislanta: The Savage Land has ben a smash success! We’re over 500% funded and the project has achieved stretch goals to add more text, artwork, and even a free D6. With more to come! We’re offering a core edition in a revised set of Talislanta RPG rules, but also four additional versions: 5e OGL, Pathfinder, Savage World and Open D6.

Nocturnal Media is thrilled to announce they will be teaming up with military fantasy author, television personality & avid wargamer Myke Cole to release a miniature based strategy board game based on Myke’s Shadow Ops novels!

We’re pleased to announce that Alan Bahr and his Gallant Knight Games (GKG) have joined Nocturnal Media. Effective immediately, Alan is a Nocturnal Media employee responsible for a number of games and product lines, including the games he created at GKG. These games, such as the ready-for-release Tiny Frontiers: Mecha & Monsters, will be published as Nocturnal Media products.

Houston, TEXAS - December 1, 2016 - Games like Belly of the Beast and Perseverant by Ben Dutter will soon be available to thousands more gamers. This is a result of a new agreement between Ben’s Sigil Stone Publishing and Stewart Wieck at Nocturnal Media that will expand the availability of Ben’s games, including Hunt the Wicked and Vow of Honor. These games all successfully funded on Kickstarter and are available in digital form and print-on-demand formats, but in 2017 they will all appear in new offset printed editions.

Jeff Barber’s new Upwind roleplaying game funded in only 13 hours on Kickstarter and generous backers have supported it to a fourth stretch goal. Now in it’s final week, the most amazing stretch goals remain. Next is Upwind Incursion, a complete print-&-play Skyship Combat Game. We may also unlock a new short story and then TickTock, a complete alternate setting for use with the innovative Q System introduced in Upwind.

Upwind is a new tabletop roleplaying game of lost science, elemental magic and uncharted skies from acclaimed game designer Jeff Barber (BluePlanet, Midnight). Originally developed at Biohazard Games, Upwind is now a joint production with Nocturnal Media. The new roleplaying game is the first of many potential projects.

Gladiator: Quest for the Rudis has been in our Kickstarter backers’ hands for several months and the game recently became available in your FLGS too. Thanks to the questions and comments from players of the game, designer Jim Trunzo has fashioned an errata and update based on his correspondence, including on our forum. There are a number of clarifications of things we got right, but we did make some mistakes too!

Stellar support for our recent Kickstarter project that funded five new decks of Storypath Cards has also cleared the way for a sixth deck that’s part of the current project to fund an English translation of Hellywood, a supernatural noir RPG from France. The new deck is the Path of Shadows.

Nocturnal Media announces an agreement with John Doe Editions of France to publish their noir-inspired tabletop roleplaying game, Hellywood. Described by designer Emmanuel Gharbi as his “love cry” to the noir and hardboiled genres, the game is set in 1949 in the California city of Heaven Harbor, nicknamed “Hellywood”.

Following the success of our Kickstarter project to fund a translation of the classic Spanish RPG Aquelarre(pre-orders still available) published by Nosolorol Ediciones, we followed the advice offered by many backers to look at other quality Spanish games that are unavailable in English. Perhaps no other Spanish game is as overdue for translation as Aquelarre, first published thirty years ago, but we found an extraordinary variety of outstanding games that definitely deserve the attention of English-speaking gamers.

We are pleased to now announce that we have entered in agreements to publish a number of these games in English over the course of the coming year.

A project to fund a new edition of Greg Costikyan’s award-winning game Web & Starship is now live on Kickstarter. Originally published in 1984, Web & Starship is an asymmetrical 3-player game that won the Charles S. Robert Award for the year’s best science fiction board game.

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All the latest news from Nocturnal Media scrolls down the screen at the left, but in addition to announcements and updates, this section contains blog-like material by Stewart Wieck, owner of Nocturnal Media. These more personal pieces could have a section of their own, but it seemed better to consider them in the context of the concurrent news. In this way, the business information and the blog entries together form a sort of digital history of Nocturnal Media and game-designer & author Stewart Wieck.